Side-door structure for cars



E. LAYEUX.

smi 000B STRUCTURE Fon CARS.

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E. LAYEUX.

SlDE DOOR STRUCTURE TOR CARS.

APPLICATION FILED-AFR. 8| 1918.

Patented Mur. 9,1920.

` 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 'UNITED 'STATES i PATENTv OFFICE,

ESEEY LAYEUx, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, As'sIGNon 0E oNE-IIALE To FRANKJ.'

i y KEENER, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

SIDE-DOOR STRCTURE FOR CARS.. f

Application ledAprl 8, 1918. Serial No. 227,216. l i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EsERY LAYEUX, a

Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Side-Door Structures forCars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of theV invention, such as will -enable others skilledin the art to which it lappertains to make and use the same.

vMy invention relates `to improvements in side door: structure for cars;and, to this end, it consists of the novel devices and combinations ofdevices hereinafter described .and denedin the claims.

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In they accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, likecharacters dicate Vlike parts throughout the several Referring'to thedrawings: Figure 1 is a A'fragnien'tary perspective view of a car body,equipped withjtheim- ",'Fig 2 isa fragmentaryv vertical section,

taken through the car body, at the "door opening, and centrally throughthe door Fig. 3 isa view corresponding to, Fig. 2,

ywith thel exception that the Ina-in door 1s "shown partly in edgeelevation and 'partly `in' section to expose'the grain door and .one

ofiits hangers; i Fig. 4 is a fragmentary Fig. 5 is a detail view, insection, taken on ture closed; Y

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary detail view in outside elevatiomillustrating oneof the clamp- Fig. 7 is a detail view, in section, taken on the line7-7of Fig. 1, withthe door closed; Fig. 8 is a view corresponding toFig. 7,

but illustrating Aa modification ofthe separable `keeper bracket; and Yig. 9 isa perspective view -of the parts shown in Fig. y8.

The numeral V10.1ndicates a car body,hav

jing 'in its sidethe .usual `door opening 111. fAn overhead` trackrail12 is securedto the car body 10, above the' door openingll, and

'extending to one side thereof. vAt the other side of the dooropeningll, a vertical door stop strip 13 is secured to the car body, but

inside view of the spaced apart from said door opening, for a purposethat will presently appear. citizen of the United States, residingjatlThe improved door 'structure comprises a grain door 16. The main door14, as shown, has a marginal frame 17., constructed' of angle bars, andis suspended by roller equipped `hangers 18, from the track 12 to have asliding movement to and from a p'o-y sition to close the door opening11'. v The supplemental door 15 is provided for closin an opening in thetop of the main door 1 through which opening access may be had to thecar, when the main door is closed, either for the purpose of inspectingthe contents thereof or loading the car with grain. This supplementaldoor 15 is hinged, at'its upper means may be provided for locking orholduing the supplemental door 15 closed.

p The main door-14 is recessed, below the supplemental door l15 andbetween'the inturnedflanges ofits frame 17, to form an inside pocket 19,to receive the grain door 16.v A marginal frame 20, of angle bars, likethe frame 17 for the main door 14, is also, as shown, preferablyprovided .for the vgrain'door 16. A pair of long hangerv bars A2l isVprovided forsuspending the grain door 16 from the main door'14 forVlateral swinging movement toward ,and from ythe car. body 10, within thepocket 19. The upper ends of these hanger bars 2l are pivoted at 22 tothe adjacent inturned flanges ofthe ymaindoor frame 17, and the lowerends thereof are pivoted at 23 to the flanges of the frame 17, whichform the vertical edges of the grain door 16'. It is highly important tonote that the vertical and lower edges of the grain vdoor 16 overlap thecar body 10, at the sides and bottom of the door opening 11, when themain door 14 is closed.

To move the grain door 16 laterally in the pocket 19, for clamping thesame against the Pcar body 10, to seal the door opening 11 belowthesupplemental door 15, I connect the `main and grain doors by amultiplicity of clamping bolts 24. These bolts 24 are insert ed throughbores in the vertical and lower 1members of the'frames 17 and 20, withtheir headsexposed, so that they may be turned Yfrom the outsidel of thecar body. As shown,

the heads of the bolts v24 are countersunk by depressing theouterflanges of the frame 17 a i Specication of Letters Patent. Patented Mar.9, 1920.

door at its front, rear and bottom edge por- In testimony whereof Iaffix Iny signature tions, and nut blocks secured to the grain inpresence of two witnesses. door with which said clamping bolts havescrew threaded engagement for imparting ESERY LAYEUX' 5 lateral movementto the grain door with re- Wltnesses:

spect to the main door and pressing said ELMER C. WELLS,

Ygrain door against the car'body. HARRY D. Kmaolm.

